Uganda National Parks

Uganda National Parks.

Coming full circle, large mammal populations in Ugandas National parks are once again worth watching, happily so for there is more to game viewing on a Uganda Safari than a game drive. In the 1960s, launch trips on the Nile below Murchison Falls and on the Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth National Park were highlights of a visit to these parks and refurbished launches once again expose visitors to memorable concentrations of waterside wildlife. By way of illustrating Uganda’s tourism renaissance, writer Philip Briggs managed just 182 pages for the first edition of his Bradt Guide to Uganda in 1994. The current edition is now a tome of over 500 pages. But although Uganda now finds its main source of foreign exchange in a vibrant and expanded tourism industry, visits to Uganda remain refreshingly low-key and unaffected by mass tourism. Encounters with wildlife and interactions with local people in the revived Pearl of Africa retain a refreshing degree of exclusivity